Research on online auctions has attracted much attention from both practitioners and academicians. This paper aims to apply stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) paradigm to construct the model of eloyalty of online auction websites. Technology effectiveness, network effect, and product diversity are determinants proposed to influence customers’ brand perceptions, which in turn, affect e-loyalty. ...

The rapidly evolving phenomenon of the World Wide Web and the creation of a new international arena for electronic commerce have expanded the possibilities for the marketing of products and services. The role played by customer behavior in the market-space is still not entirely understood and calls for investigations into the signi®cance of customer attitudes and loyalty. In this article, a mod...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between risk perceptions (financial, performance, social, time and privacy risks) and risk reduction strategies (brand loyalty, word of mouth, past experience, money back guarantee, store image, shopping, major brand image, free sample, website reputation, and payment security) in online group buying context. Design/methodolog...

In this research, we analyze the relationship among (1) the performance metrics of a sponsored search campaign, (2) the gender orientation of queries, and (3) the occurrence of branded terms in queries. The aim of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of increased personalization of search engine advertising in order to improve the consumer’s online experience. We segregate keyphras...

and others at both organizations for their support and valuable input. Special thanks to Grey Advertising's Ben Arno who suggested the term brand resonance. Additional thanks to workshop participants at Duke University and Dartmouth College. MSI was established in 1961 as a not-for profit institute with the goal of bringing together business leaders and academics to create knowledge that will i...

Brand love has been found to predict brand loyalty measures better than conventional attitude models that rely on the brand’s perceived quality. Hence, marketers are interested in factors that lead to brand love. This study investigates the influence of anthropomorphism on brand love in the context of defensive marketing. We identified five possible theoretical mechanisms through which anthropo...